Movie Buff List (MBL)

I have yet to watch the masterpiece that will shake me to my core and cause me to stand up and clap in amazement. Instead, what I find is, I hold 359340494394 (which is not much compared to Relda) from the library because "I aint gonna risk my hard earned bucks on some potential crap" by renting from a video store. I get comfortable with my Sleep Wear robe, black tube socks and hot chocolate. I sit down in my cozy living room couch, plop in the DVD and...

Snore like a baby.

I wake up and find myself alone, in the dark and just in time for the credits.

Am I getting an insufficient amount of sleep or is it simply the filmmakers fault for making a movie that fails to capture my attention?

So far I have fallen asleep to:
The Opposite of Sex
Very promising movie, it begins with the satirical voice over of a charming Christina Ricci.
The Perks: Amazingly gorgeous Ivan Sergei (between you and me, he's the reason I didn't fall asleep within the first 5 minutes).

Some Woody Allen Movie
Although I quite enjoyed Vicky Cristina Barcelona

And Others

Movies That I Sort of Recommend
Dreamland
This is a movie about a girl, [whose name I forgot] and this guy [whose name I also forgot] and her best friend Calista. Her goals and aspirations are compromised due to the constant pressure to look after her sick friend and "hapless" father.
The Perks: amazing cinematography and location. For you silence apreciators, it is a break from the loud, obnoxious and cheesy music that oozes out of mediocre maintstream films.
Rating: 6/10.

Movies I Definitely Reccommend
The Lion King
What can I say? Disney in its prime.
The Perks: Beginning scene is a must watch: the unity and beauty of Mufasa's kingdom just brings goosebumps to anybody of any age.
Rating: 7.5/10


And stay tuned for more MBL. I am still on a quest to find that masterpiece.

Writer's Block

Writer's Block.
A parasite that gradually creeps its way unto a potential masterpiece leaving the creativity of the writer paralyzed and at loss for words.
That writer's block is a very stubborn disease.
I will choose to rid off my writer's block by typing with my left hand, which is supposed to trigger my potential creativity and cure my creativity of this seemingly incurable virus.

For me usually, the cure for writer's block is inspiration. Whether it be from a book, movie, television show or a phrase uttered by a dear friend, I find inspiration to be my closest companion and catalyst to writer's block. The problem is I have a collection of books, burrowed and owned, collecting dust in my bourgeois; I also have a movie, Waking Life, lying somewhere in my presently tidy basement (merci mama) and the television although turned on, is offering me nothing but a long awaited yawn.

Right now, I am waiting for a current pop culture guilty pleasure, 90210 to come on television. Maybe the scandalous affairs, subjective skanks que j'adore deteste and the possibility of a mentally troubled teenage boy will fill me with the inspiration I am so desperately seeking.

Oh perhaps I should stimulate my intellectual mind with discussions of self, the meaning of life, authority and politics with Waking Life.

Oh, the choices!

I have exactly 39 minutes till the juiciness that is 90210 shimmies itself onto my television screen so conclusively, I will not have time to watch Waking Life. Instead, I will type in http://www.deviantart.com/ on my web browser and loose myself within potentially beautiful photography.

Do I Will

Hey my fellow bloggers and readers-of-my-blog. I am very much still alive. It's been what, two months since I last posted? Well, I'm bahhh-ahhck. I'm back and revived.

So what has happened in the two months you've missed of my life? Well, I got a job. I get paid minimum wage to scan people's food (a.k.a grocery store cashier).

What else has happened? Well my sister left the nest to attend University so I'm a lonely girl living in a mansion (no, no mansion).

School begins on Tuesday-whoop-dee-doo-actually, I am quite anticipating the event. I just hope it doesn't become monotonous as it usually does by November.

I had an epiphany. I want to live an exicting, sixteen year old girl's life. I want to have fun and do things and not complain about not having fun. Instead of "talk, talk, talk" I wanna DO. And do I will. I WILL find something to do in this suburban fence and it will not cost a fortune and I will find cool, chic people to accompany me.

Movie Buff List (MBL)

American History X: It's a drama/crime story about a former neo nazi who tries to prevent his brother from going down the same path as he did.
Why you will like it: you will always be at the edge of your seat
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/

Movie Buff

This summer, I'm on a mission to become a movie buff. Aside from taking a summer school course, I have taken time from my busy days and dedicated time to watch award-winning movies. I've discovered that I'm an award snob. If it does not have an Oscar or a Sundance, Cannes or Toronto Film Festival award, I DO NOT even look at it.

So far the movies I've watched consists of:

Raising Victor Vargas

It's a very funny movie about a Hispanic family living in the low end area of New York and dealing with their grandmother's attitude about them growing up.

Rating: 7/10

What you will love: cute little grandmother with strong Dominican accent and an equally stronger personality

Find out more at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316188/

Goodbye Lover

Don't you love it when you cannot trust anybody? If you love scheming protagonists, chic clothing and suspense, you will love Goodbye Lover, starring Patricia Arquette (from Medium).

Rating: 6.5/10

What you will love: the mixing of church and sex

Find out more at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119219/

Before Sunrise

An American guy and a French girl meet each other on a train and decide to spend the night together in Vienna.

Rating: 7/10

What you will love: the pure and unfiltered dialogue

Find out more at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112471/

There's a sequel called Before Sunset

So far, I have yet to watch a movie that shakes me to my core and make me stand up and clap in awe at the vision of the filmmakers. I hope I will soon, so dear reader, what movies have done that you?

Groovacious is a Go-getter

Life is not at all like the movies. It's actually, suprisingly better. I thought large companies and businesses like Elite Model Management could give two shits if you wanted to co-op with them. They'd be like, in a snooty voice,
"Pffft."
Or even worse, they won't bother to reply to your email request. However, they are not like that at all! I'm taking co-op in Grade 11 and my lazy ass teachers said they wouldn't be able to find anything in PR for me so I should settle for HR. When I pressed on them that I wanted to go into PR, they said fine, but you have to do your own research and find companies that would wanna place a co-op student. So since I am a go-getter, I searched local PR/media relations/agencies and emailed them a heartfelt and sincere request. And I didn't pick any shlumpadinka firms, I went for highend companies. And guess what?
I recieved 3 replies out of the 6 emails I sent. And one was from a modelling agency! YAY! I feel fabbity fab fab!

Stimulation

I'm turning into "one of those girls" you know the ones that spend a lot of time on Facebook and MSN and wait anxiously for something to happen? Mhm. That's me right now. And you know what I tried to do about it?

Not nothing, like you'd expect me to say. I deactivated my facebook but then I signed back on because I wanted to see if my friends were online cause I had to do some dishin'.

But you know what I'm gonna really do?

I went to the library today and got some mind stimulating books on philosophy. They're gonna open up my mind and turn me into a pondering intellectual young woman, like I was in the first semester of Grade 10. I was such an intellect, reading philosophy books in English class like a subjective pretentious over-suburban snob.

Now, all I do is contribute to the growing phenomenon of the social networking site that is Facebook. And what does it do? It sure does not stimulate my mind. It makes me obsessive and devles me into a shell of pathetic-ness. But you know what, Mark Zuckerberg? NO MORE.

This is supposed to indicate something philosophical. As I'm in a current state of dumbed down intelligence, I won't be able to explain this picture until I read a minimum of two philosophical books.

Where are all the Good Erotica?

On Friday, Relda and myself were blessed with distributing promotional flyers for Spacekids (no, it's not a space camp, it's actually a very promising film festival we're volunteering for: see two posts ago) in the scorching heat. After we got lost 79249324098 times (like tourists) at a place we go quite frequently (Comment pouvons-nous survivre dans la grande mauvaise ville?), we decided that we wanted to go to the local bookstore, Chapters.

We plopped comfortably on the floor and flipped through This Book, a collection of exquisite photography of beautiful half-naked models and an uninspiring fashion mag. After being told "uh you can't sit on the floor," we eventually ended up at the Erotica section. Of course we were giggly, immature and also...

NOT IMPRESSED.

Where was all the the cock, cum, fuck-motherfucker-fuck-shit, cunt, dildo? Huh? Darling, if you can't make good erotica, you can't make good anything!

Relda declared, "I'm not even aroused."

On the cover of one of the books was a half-cut avocado, which I suppose was supposed to symbolize somebody's womanhood. Real sexy, NAAAT. And in one of the books I was flipping through, a guy requested that the girl he was filming put red lipstick on a set of lips that was not placed on her face. He thought it would be sexy.

Which got me wondering, would I let my kinky future man paint my lips with the same L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick I use on my other lips?